Luke The Evangelist Essay

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The person that I am going to write this paper about is one of the well- known person that all christians should have heard about, one of the biggest achievement of his life is that he witnessed Jesus’s life and death, and wrote two books that actually became two of the most important gospel in the Bible,the name of the gospel and also the one who wrote it is Luke.

(P1 This is a picture of Luke’s painting http://www.stfrancisnyc.org/2013/06/summer-bible-course-the-gospel-of-luke/ )

First of all I would like to talk about who is this person.Luke the Evangelist is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of canonical Gospels. The early church fathers ascribed to him authorship of both the Gospel according to …show more content…

For instance, Luke is the only Gospel to have a sequel, the Acts of the Apostles. These two books are often referred to as a single unit called Luke-Acts. Another difference between Luke and the other Synoptics is the prologue (1:1-4). Luke's prologue can also be called an exordium, which is a literary device that was also used by other Greek writers. There is a striking similarity between the structure of Josephus' Against Apion and Luke-Acts. Not only does the prologue enable readers to better understand the purpose of the Gospel, but it also makes the destination clear. Unfortunately, and in a similar fashion to the other Synoptics, the author does not directly identify himself within the text. On the other hand there is enough internal and external evidence to conclude that it was written by Luke the physician. Because the book of Acts is the sequel to Luke, it should be considered when trying to define the author. In certain sections of Acts, the author uses the first person plural in the narrative (Acts 16:10-17; 20:5-15; 21:1-8; 27:1-28:16). These are usually referred to as the we-sections and would indicate that the author of Acts accompanied Paul at these times. Luke is the only one that would fit into this mold according to Paul's epistles. Externally, even the earliest manuscripts support the title "According to Luke" . Much of early church tradition also believed that Luke wrote this

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